Article Submission Guidelines

While RankingToday.com strongly encourages article marketing , we
have established some basical Guidelines for Authors to adhere to in
an effort to offer articles to readers that are well written and informative
and not only advertising for the writer. Please read our Article Submission
Guidelines before applying to become an author and before publishing
articles. Understanding and adhering to RankingToday.com Article Submission
Guidelines will insure the acceptance and listing of your article in
our site.

Compliance with the following Article Submission Guidelines insures
your article(s) approval and inclusion in our site. All of your approved
articles will be published on this site, www.rankingtoday.com for distribution
to other readers.

RankingToday Article Submission Guidelines:

General Guidelines:

Authors submitting articles to RankingToday.com for approval to be added
to the RankingToday.com site will not be compensated in any way, for the writing
or submitting of any article.

Author's are only permitted to submit an article to one category.
If you don't see a category listed you feel is most appropriate for
the subject matter of your article, please Contact Us using our "Contact
Us Form". Usually we approve all reasonable new category and
Sub-Catagory's, and notify you of their availability by return email.
We will reply to your email within 2 business days with our decision.

All author's will reserve and retain all copyright to their articles.

RankingToday.com reserve the right to publish your articles anywhere
on our web site, blog or syndicate through RSS Feeds. The pages where
the articles will be published may display also other content, including
advertising material.

All articles submitted by you must be written/authored by you.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Plagiarists will be banned without
recourse. Anyone proven guilty of copyright infringement will have
their RankingToday.com account closed, all articles removed from the
author's list and from the directory and be banned.

Your article should serve to educate and inform rather than just serve
as a promotional piece. Include How To's, Tips, Strategies, Techniques, Case-studies,
Analyses, Opinions and/or Commentary in your articles from your own experience.

Article Submission does not mean your article will be automatically
accepted and listed in the RankingToday.com website. RankingToday.com
has the sole authority to except or reject any article. As long as
your article meets the requirements in these guidelines, your article
will be accepted. However, if your article is not up to the general
standards of our guidelines, RankingToday.com will indicate the reason
for rejection in your rejection email notice.

RankingToday.com is looking for quality articles with content that
is informational and well thought out. Articles with grammatical or
spelling errors will be rejected. Formatting will be covered below.

If your article is rejected , you can resubmit your article 2 additional
times only, with errors corrected for approval. If errors are not corrected
in the 3rd submission, it will not be reconsidered for approval again.

Spamming of this directory will not be tolerated. Submitting multiple copies,
(2 or more), of the same article using different Titles, or with only slight
modifications is strictly forbidden. Offenders will have their articles deleted,
account terminated and be banned from future submissions.

While direct affiliate links won't be tolerated , you are allowed
to have links to pages on your domain that redirect to your affiliate
program. NO Pop-Ups Allowed, NO Java Scripting Allowed. Promotional"
links are not allowed in the Title, Summary or Body of your article.
However, Resource and Source Credit links, Up to a maximum of 3 "Source"
links, (Links to a third party work you are referencing for credibility),
in the body of your article are allowed.

Article Structure Guidelines

Download links are STRICTLY Forbidden. No direct links to any type of digital
download are allowed.

RankingToday.com does not accept articles that have the same ACTIVE link
more than once. Do not submit duplicate identical URLs.

RankingToday.com does not knowingly allow any URLs in any of our articles
that are banned by Google or if your web site engages in questionable SEO
practices -- RankingToday.com may reject your articles.

RankingToday.com does not allow active links in the first sentence, or first
paragraph or above the fold of an article.

RankingToday.com does not auto format URL's that are in the BODY of your
article.

RankingToday.com does not allow articles which have strategic keyword anchor
text links in the body to your domain that do not add informational value
to the article. Any use of anchored text links to web sites that you own should
add value to the article topic rather than stand out as an obvious abuse an
anchored text link. The goal with this policy is to be a good net citizen
by only allowing articles that add value with the anchored text links rather
than purely for SEO reasons.
Example: Within your article, you link the word "bird dog" to an
article that you wrote about bird dogging. This is a good example of an anchored
text link vs. linking the same text to your home page as it doesn't really
add informational value.

We recommend including a link to your web site in the Resource Box, but
do not advocate including a mailto: or email link to your personal or work
email account.

RankingToday.com will not accept articles with links to adult oriented
web sites, including but not limited to web sites that include nudity, pornography,
adult-oriented shopping sites and adult-oriented sexual content or any other
potentially offensive or illegal content promoting hate, racism, hacking,
bomb building, terrorism or any other illegal and/or offensive activities.